Nvidia Flex

[infntnub]

I realize this is pretty much an abandoned feature but I felt compelled to mess with it a bit last night...

2 observations/comments I felt like putting out there.

- flex (gibs only) doesn't seem to have the impact on FPS it once did when I first tried it in EA, so that was a nice surprise
- are the intestines supposed to fly straight up (for the most part) during every explosion? This almost becomes comical and I think I may like it lol...

I didn't try running gibs + fluids as I recall that bringing my pc to its knees.

This is completely abandoned correct? No further support/improvement expected?

 

[s5yn3t]

i mean, most of nvidia tech gets abandoned quickly.
Like Apple, go for initial bang but then piss on support.

And then again any info on fixes or bugs or whatever you'd have to send to them directly, as dev team or publisher have no power over it (all hail closed source tech)

 

[imnrk]

I wish they could have made it work for AMD cards too. I don't realisticly believe that FLEX would only ever work for one brand of card.

 

[s5yn3t]

I wish they could have made it work for AMD cards too. I don't realisticly believe that FLEX would only ever work for one brand of card.

Again, its nvidia technology.
Closed source and specifically coded to work Only on Nvidia cards, and TWI or anyone else can't do schnitzel about it.

 

[LolzMan1325]

this is what i'm talking about when i say why don't they just scrap the feature and improve the default gore? it's a PC only option and at the moment it's not fulfilling its purpose, and like you said there's not much they can do about it, so...?

 

[pbo]

PhysX Now Open Source

Could this mean that FLEX can have its long-awaited optimization chance? Tripwire can now freely look inside the source code and fix/adjust things.

 

[s5yn3t]

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[Foster Parent]

PhysX and Flex are not the same. They share some code (probably) but the difference in names reflect differences under the hood, as far as I know. Some of the technical people from NVidia had worked on the PhysX implementation for Borderlands (was it PX4?) and were trying out some new ideas with Flex. It started as a sort of "if I could start over" project for them.

 

[foxrun89]

PhysX and Flex are not the same. They share some code (probably) but the difference in names reflect differences under the hood, as far as I know. Some of the technical people from NVidia had worked on the PhysX implementation for Borderlands (was it PX4?) and were trying out some new ideas with Flex. It started as a sort of "if I could start over" project for them.

Any chance of scrapping Flex and creating your own system or using havok? Kind of like what happened with Warframe.

 

[Foster Parent]

foxrun89 Flex is not the the physics system in the game, it only does an additional kind of blood and gibs. It is just a little extra. I don't miss it (I have an AMD GPU), the regular blood effects are fine by me.